Each Friday, we run a quiz in the Daily Brew, our daily politics newsletter, on a topic we covered the previous week. Click here to subscribe, and we'll send you three stories each weekday morning that you won't find anywhere else. The trivia question below was featured in the Friday, April 19, edition.
This week's question was, How many state legislators have switched parties since 1994?
In the Monday Brew, we looked at the number of state legislators who’ve switched parties over the years. It doesn’t happen often—we’ve counted an average of six per year. The most recent case came on April 3, when Nebraska Sen. Mike McDonnell switched his party affiliation from Democrat to Republican.
McDonnell is the second state lawmaker to change parties this year. New Hampshire Rep. Matthew Coker left the Democratic Party and became a Republican in February.
In 2023, we tracked 10 party changes.
How many state legislators have changed their party affiliation since 1994?
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